Stickney

Stickney West Houses, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

A relatively short-lived place of worship, this chapel was erected in 1866 and services were discontinued in 1907.

The chapel was sold in 1913 and the building remained roofless and half demolished for over 80 years.

It is located at NGR TF 337 542 on the southern edge of Stickney parish where it adjoins Sibsey parish.

Barry Barton, 1977

Stickney West Houses Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

Stickney, Donner's Mill (1)

This mill was built in 1845 for William Balderston.

Jon Sass Collection, undated photograph

Stickney, Donner's Mill, windmill, Jon Sass, William Balderston

Stickney, Donner's Mill (2)

Milling by wind ended at Donner's Mill in 1952 but continued for a while under engine power.

Location of mill: TF 345 569

Peter Kirk Collection, 1998

Stickney, Donner's Mill, windmill, Peter Kirk

Stickney, Primary School

Stickney Church of England Primary School is in a prominent position in the village at the corner of Main Road (A16) and Hall Lane.

May 2018

Stickney, Primary School

Stickney, Railway Station

Stickney station opened with what was known as the "New Line", between Coningsby Junction and Bellwater Junction, in 1913.

Built by the Great Northern Railway with a double track, in 1916 the GNR Board agreed to lift one line of rails to assist the war effort. This happened on several branch lines nationwide with the rails destined for use in France.

The missing track was reinstated in 1923.

This station lost its goods service in 1964, became unstaffed in 1968 and the line and station closed in 1970.

Peter Grey Archive, 1970

Stickney, railway station

Stickney, Rectory

Undated postcard.

White's Directory of Lincolnshire 1872 states "The benefice is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £13. 11s. 3d., and now at £400, in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. George Coltman, who is also rural dean, and has 180 acres of glebe, and a neat rectory house, built about the year 1820, and enlarged by him in 1848, at a cost of £600"

Stickney, Rectory

Stickney, St Luke

The nave arcades are Early English whilst the tower is Perpendicular though lowered and restored in the late nineteenth century.

The chancel of 1853 is by William Butterfield, who added the clerestory two years later.

Mark Acton, 2017

Stickney, William Butterfield

Stickney, St Luke

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The church of St. Luke is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and a massive tower containing 5 bells:

in 1853 a new chancel was erected from designs by the late Mr. W. Butterfield, architect, and in 1855 the rest of the church was restored under his direction:

the church was lighted in 1884 by the members of the Mayday club, in memory of the Rev. Canon George Coltman M.A. rector 1835-83:

the porch was rebuilt in 1887, almost on the old plan, from designs by W. and C. A. Bassett-Smith, architects, of London, when the tower was also partly pulled down and temporarily roofed over, but in 1900 this was rebuilt and the lower part restored; the south aisle has also been restored, at a total cost of £3,100:

there is a stained window in memory of John Kirkham esq. :

the church will seat 436 persons.

About one rood of land was purchased by the parish in 1900 and added to the churchyard"

DB 1 September 2019

Stickney, Saint Luke, Church

Stickney, St Luke

View of St Luke's from the south-west.

May 2018

Stickney, St Luke

Stickney, St Luke, Chancel

Looking across the sanctuary.

"C19 reredos and tripartite sedilia"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063538

The chancel was erected in 1853 from designs by William Butterfield.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Butterfield

DB 1 September 2019

Stickney, Saint Luke, Church, William Butterfield

Stickney, St Luke, Chancel, East Window

"To the glory of God, and in grateful remembrance of George Henry Hales, the beloved Curate and Rector of Stickney for 43 years, who passed to the fuller life 22nd November, 1922, this Window was dedicated by his Parishioners, Friends and Relations 27th September, 1923.

It was mainly through his zeal that the tower of this Church was rebuilt in 1900.

In his day he was an athlete of world-wide renown"

A Lincoln Record Society news review states :-

"Another remarkable athlete among the Lincolnshire parish clergy was George Henry Hales, Rector of Stickney from 1883 until 1922.

An athletics blue at Cambridge and President of the University Athletics Club, he was universally known as "Hammer Hales", holding for twenty years the world record for throwing the hammer"

http://www.lincoln-record-society.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Lincoln-Record-Society-News-Review-8.pdf

The Window was designed and executed by Messrs. Burlison and Grylls, Great Ormond Street, London.

DB 1 September 2019

Stickney, Saint Luke, Church, stained glass, Burlison and Grylls

Stickney, St Luke, Nave

Looking east towards the C19 chancel arch.

Late C13 nave arcades.

DB 1 September 2019

Stickney, Saint Luke, Church

Stickney, St Luke, Nave

Looking west towards the tall C15 tower arch.

DB 1 September 2019

Stickney, Saint Luke, Church

Stickney, St Luke, Nave, Clerestory

One of the cinquefoil windows :-

"The C19 clerestory has a single pair of arched lights with cusped tracery, to the left is a single large cinquefoil set into a circle, a single similar pair of lights, a single similar cinquefoil and on the far left a single light window with cusped tracery"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1063538

DB 1 September 2019

Stickney, Saint Luke, Church, clerestory